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- OSX Snow Leopard is 29 dollars for Tiger and Leopard users. Unless you're a retarded nitwit like Mike Gallos who was fictional nephews on fictional setups that absolutely make no sense at all. Unless you're a retarded nitwit like Mike Gallos.
- It doesn't require a 8x7 grid to understand if and what you should do for an upgrade
- OSX Snow Leopard contains everything; there aren't 8-12 different versions.
- OSX Snow Leopard was created from the creative minds of Apple. Windows 7 was blatantly copied. Like Vista.
- OSX Snow Leopard has already been released so you don't have to wait until Microsoft releases it.
Nothing to see here.

@Logjamming:"Nothing to see here. "
Nothing to see, really. So, do you advise a poor college student who's parents just bought them an HP laptop last year to throw it away and purchase a new Mac. Or do you suggest they take this $30 deal.
Nice personal attack, by the way. It shows that you really know what you're talking about.

"They ask for a valid college e-mail address in order to verify you. They may ask for more, but that's what I found when I visited the site."
Either an email address, or an ISIC. Any student that is travelling abroad should have an ISIC though.

@ de Silentio
If his/her parents bought him/her an HP laptop, I'd suggest he/she drop out of college immediately.
There's a fairly high correlation between parental intellect and offspring intellect. If your parents buy you an HP computer (perhaps the Envy? Fitting name), you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart. Chances are, neither are their children. The best they could do with that limited intellect is get an MSCE-certificate. That's what got Mike Galos thinking he's got IQ.

Logjamming said: "If his/her parents bought him/her an HP laptop, I'd suggest he/she drop out of college immediately."
Here we can see you intelligence...
LogJamming... Why don't you go in a Apple blog... Silly... With this kind of comment you just showing Apple *Fans* are idiots...

There's a fairly high correlation between parental intellect and offspring intellect. If your parents buy you a Mac computer, you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart because they make you work with technologies that near nobody use out there, and when you'll come out to work you will be lost to see you don't know anything about usual technologies... But, you'll have the advantage to be a better employee because of you habit to follow command blindly.The best they could do with that limited intellect and the natural ability to follow the god (Jobs) rules is get a rope and get strangled to death...

"Trying to figure out how to buy this...I work for a educational institution..."
Buy it from the Home Use Program through your educational volume license agreement. The volume license agreement account administrator (your school or school board should know who that is) would have information on how to do this. Regular software for business use would be purchased through the normal volume license agreement. Your educational institutional has one already don't they?
If not, you get a FAIL!
"If you find how to buy in Canada let me know..."
Ditto, or else if for a student, watch http://www.theultimatesteal.ca
There's also http://www.dreamspark.com for additional software (it's free).
Finally, students can benefit from this program too:
http://student-partners.com/

>>If your parents buy you a Mac computer, you can be fairly certain they aren't that smart because they make you work with technologies that near nobody use out there<<
Now THIS is the kind of stuff that causes blog postings to go off-topic...because it is a flat out lie.

What makes me laugh is that EricoF3, the self professed Apple hater, was the first person to bring up Apple in this thread.
That being said, this is a good move on MS's part. A lot of students are going to love this deal :)

>>That being said, this is a good move on MS's part. A lot of students are going to love this deal<<
I thought most people got their OS when they bought a new machine.
My brother is a student...that looks like it might work for me...

Ocean said: "Now THIS is the kind of stuff that causes blog postings to go off-topic...because it is a flat out lie."
He! I stop you right now Ocean... i just copy this text from Logjamming and change it a little to applied its text to Apple ... Read above the post of Logjamming... HE begin first...

RunTimeError said: "What makes me laugh is that EricoF3, the self professed Apple hater, was the first person to bring up Apple in this thread."
"the self professed Apple hater"!!!!! Where I ever professed to Hate Apple?? I never professed any thing like that I am sorry...
Could you give some prof of that? Because I never told such a thing... I don't hate Apple... I hate Apple *Fanatics* ... That's it...

"Could you give some prof of that? Because I never told such a thing... I don't hate Apple... I hate Apple *Fanatics* ... That's it..."
Well, you're the one who first brought up Apple on this thread. If you're against Apple fanatics, why do you encourage them?

"Unless you're a r******* nitwit like Mike Gallos."
Logjamming, you make robertsjoe look like a reasoned commentator. Why don't you go back to whatever rock you crawled out from under and take a long nap? You bring NOTHING to the conversation.

I think logjamming is the same person as infiniteloop on Windows IT Pro. He seems to get in as the first commenter on nearly every post with the same type of drivel.
"Logjamming, you make robertsjoe look like a reasoned commentator. "
LOL! Never thought that such a thing would ever be possible, but that is certainly the case. RJ, take a bow. You are no longer the most reviled poster on here.

shark47 said: "Well, you're the one who first brought up Apple on this thread. If you're against Apple fanatics, why do you encourage them?"
Because I like to annoy them... I just play with them... All this is just a game... You should stop to talk the life so seriously...
War between Apple *Fans* and Microsoft *Fans* is just a game... And its fun to argue about which one is ligitim or not and... so on...
is quit simple, isn't it?

@Logjamming,
Mike's aggravates me sometimes, but he is not a nitwit.
"So, do you advise a poor college student who's parents just bought them an HP laptop last year to throw it away and purchase a new Mac. Or do you suggest they take this $30 deal."
No, I'd suggest the students with Macs get VMWare and use this deal to have Windows 7 as well. It's a good deal.

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